Show I BY 3 BILL HOEST Laugh Varade DECEMBER 1987 13 On Varader what’s Up This week BY LYNN MINTON M£0£VlIl£ftS THE RUSH IS ON FOR THE OSCARS Big stars and directors are rushing to the screens with major flicks to qualify for this year’s Oscars In September Woody Allen perhaps thinks back to the Lana Turner-Johnn- y Crane murder case and speculates about it and its aftermath: An unhappy woman (Mia Farrow) who years before at 14 confessed to killing her movie-stmother’s lover confronts her (Elaine Stritch) The movie which also has strong echoes of Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata says that life is perverse — love is unrequited people betray best friends husbands lovers even their own children — and miserable Nobody who sits around with this crew for a couple of hours will fight Woody on that one Coincidentally Cheryl Crane is coming out with her autobiography Detour: A Hollywood Story— and a differing version of these events Stompanato-Cher- yl ar “My gran'ma eh? Let’s see some ID” Brooks Hunter and Hurt (kl in News The most eagerly awaited movie today is the topical Broadcast News James L Brooks’ first g time out since his poignant Terms of Endearment His new drama starring William Hurt Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks is a tale of love and feverish ambition set in the Washington bureau of a major TV network ripe for big changes o Cher tries a totally new kind of role in the gloriously romantic and writer-direct- or Oscar-winnin- funny Moonstruck As a Italian widow in her late 30s she’s about to settle for a companionable but loveless marriage mama’s boy (Danny to a middle-age- d when Aiello) grand passion strikes “CUEh The most intriguing casting of the rs season reunites Heartburn Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Ironweed drawn by William co-sta- Kennedy from his Pulitzer novel It’s a rich a about man forced to face original the to of up ghosts his past Prize-winni- Goldie Hawn is good at playing spoiled and silly rich women who are forced to shape up and grow up (remember Private Benjamin!) In the romantic comedy Overboard she loses her memory in a fall from her yacht and is tricked into keeping house for a widower (Kurt Russell) who says she’s his wife and the mother of his four unruly boys Will anybody be surprised if they fall in love? Will Bill Cosby’s devoted fans buy tickets to see him in theaters? Columbia is betting big on the comedy adventure Leonard Part 6 In it Cosby plays a former secret agent who’s lured out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius who makes animals do his bidding (a zillion frogs lift a car a rabbit goes for the jugular) Cosby fights a rabbit? PAGE 16 DECEMBER 13 1987 PARADE MAGAZINE |